Ezra
California Newsreel | Release Date: February 13, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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80
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Unsparing, pedagogic, and genuinely compelling. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Aduaka's comprehensive account of an African nightmare covers a lot of important ground, making this flawed film worth seeing. Read full review
70
VarietyJohn Anderson
A passionate, harrowing drama about rebellion, atrocity and child soldiering in Africa, Ezra is raw and violent. There's no denying the film's power, or its frankness regarding the ongoing tragedy of Africa. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
There’s no questioning the sincerity of the filmmakers or the urgency of the subject matter, but the clumsiness with which this harrowing story of a child soldier in Africa may wear you out long before the puzzle is put together. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
The story is hell to follow--the flashbacks aren’t in chronological order--and the nonacting variable. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The movie’s sense of time is as vague as Ezra’s perception of it. Chaos is all he knows. Making Ezra even harder to follow, and undermining its authenticity, is the fact that its mostly African cast speaks in a heavily accented English. Mr. Kamara’s glowering lead performance, however, is riveting. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The film is so committed to its view of Ezra as a pawn in the psychotic game of postcolonial Africa that he is never allowed, as a character, to become more than a pawn. Read full review
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